Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 23

FPL GW23 rankings and projections: updated Fantasy Premier League player tiers for every position. Who to start, captain, buy and avoid ahead of Gameweek 23.

January 20, 2026

Fantasy Premier League Player Rankings: Gameweek 23

By:

Adam Zdroik

January 20, 2026

Fantasy Premier League Rankings

Welcome to RotoWire's FPL GW23 rankings for the official Fantasy Premier League game. The rankings are based on predicted starting lineups, form, and upcoming fixtures, pulled directly from our lineups page.

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FPL GW23 FIXTURES (ET)

7:30 am: West Ham United vs. Sunderland
10:00 am: Burnley vs. Tottenham Hotspur
10:00 am: Fulham vs. Brighton & Hove Albion
10:00 am: Manchester City vs. Wolverhampton
12:30 pm: AFC Bournemouth vs. Liverpool
9:00 am: Brentford vs. Nottingham Forest
9:00 am: Crystal Palace vs. Chelsea
9:00 am: Newcastle United vs. Aston Villa
11:30 am: Arsenal vs. Manchester United
3:00 pm: Everton vs. Leeds United

Predicted & Confirmed Lineups, Odds, Set-Piece Takers, Team & Player Stats
Fantasy Premier League: GW23 Cheat Sheet

FPL GAMEWEEK 23 PLAYER RANKINGS

Overall Rank	FW Rank	MID Rank	DEF Rank	GK Rank	Player	Team	Matchup	Pos	Price	TSB%	Pts
1	1				Erling Haaland	MCI	MCI v. WOL	F	15.1	74.1	8.14
2		1			Phil Foden	MCI	MCI v. WOL	M	8.6	27.6	7.27
3	2				Igor Thiago	BRE	BRE v. NFO	F	7.2	36.4	6.53
4		2			Bukayo Saka	ARS	ARS v. MUN	M	10.1	18.6	6.43
5	3				Hugo Ekitike	LIV	LIV at BOU	F	8.9	26.9	5.89
6		3			Cody Gakpo	LIV	LIV at BOU	M	7.3	5.8	5.88
7			1		Nico O'Reilly	MCI	MCI v. WOL	D	5.2	7.9	5.87
8			2		Matheus Nunes	MCI	MCI v. WOL	D	5.5	4.2	5.86
9		4			Antoine Semenyo	MCI	MCI v. WOL	M	7.6	45.4	5.80
10			3		Nathan Collins	BRE	BRE v. NFO	D	5.0	3.8	5.75
11		5			Harvey Barnes	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	6.1	1.6	5.73
12			4		James Tarkowski	EVE	EVE v. LEE	D	5.7	12.9	5.67
13	4				Brian Brobbey	SUN	SUN at WHU	F	5.5	0.6	5.65
14			5		Pedro Porro	TOT	TOT at BRN	D	5.2	12.6	5.65
15		6			Cole Palmer	CHE	CHE at CRY	M	10.4	12.1	5.63
16	5				Dominic Calvert-Lewin	LEE	LEE at EVE	F	6.0	13.9	5.58
17		7			James Garner	EVE	EVE v. LEE	M	5.2	3.8	5.57
18		8			Leandro Trossard	ARS	ARS v. MUN	M	6.9	1.6	5.56
19			6		Marc Guehi	MCI	MCI v. WOL	D	5.3	38.1	5.53
20		9			Rodri	MCI	MCI v. WOL	M	6.3	0.4	5.52
21		10			Florian Wirtz	LIV	LIV at BOU	M	8.3	12.3	5.51
22			7		Malick Thiaw	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	5.1	6.3	5.44
23		11			Harry Wilson	FUL	FUL v. BHA	M	5.9	22.3	5.39
24		12			Anthony Gordon	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	7.5	5.4	5.38
25		13			Bruno Guimaraes	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	7.2	23.7	5.38
26		14			Joelinton	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	5.9	0.4	5.36
27		15			Mathys Tel	TOT	TOT at BRN	M	6.2	0.2	5.34
28	6				Taty Castellanos	WHU	WHU v. SUN	F	5.5	0.0	5.32
29	7				Raul Jimenez	FUL	FUL v. BHA	F	6.2	2.1	5.31
30		16			Kevin Schade	BRE	BRE v. NFO	M	7.1	2.8	5.31
31			8		Sven Botman	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	4.9	0.4	5.30
32	8				Ollie Watkins	AVL	AVL at NEW	F	8.8	13.5	5.30
33		17			Jack Grealish	EVE	EVE v. LEE	M	6.4	9.2	5.29
34		18			Bruno Fernandes	MUN	MUN at ARS	M	9.2	16.2	5.27
35		19			Declan Rice	ARS	ARS v. MUN	M	7.4	29.9	5.23
36		20			Brenden Aaronson	LEE	LEE at EVE	M	5.4	0.8	5.20
37		21			Dominik Szoboszlai	LIV	LIV at BOU	M	6.6	4.8	5.20
38			9		Cristian Romero	TOT	TOT at BRN	D	5.0	3.9	5.18
39		22			Jeremy Doku	MCI	MCI v. WOL	M	6.4	3.0	5.17
40	9				Randal Kolo Muani	TOT	TOT at BRN	F	6.9	0.4	5.16
41	10				Nick Woltemade	NEW	NEW v. AVL	F	7.2	14.8	5.13
42	11				Jean-Philippe Mateta	CRY	CRY v. CHE	F	7.5	10.4	5.10
43			10		Gabriel	ARS	ARS v. MUN	D	6.8	35.3	5.06
44		23			Granit Xhaka	SUN	SUN at WHU	M	5.2	7.0	5.03
45	12				Junior Kroupi	BOU	BOU v. LIV	F	4.6	4.4	5.01
46		24			Alexis Mac Allister	LIV	LIV at BOU	M	6.2	1.3	5.01
47	13				Joao Pedro	CHE	CHE at CRY	F	7.1	26.6	4.98
48		25			Ryan Sessegnon	FUL	FUL v. BHA	M	5.4	0.2	4.98
49		26			Ibrahim Sangare	NFO	NFO at BRE	M	4.9	0.1	4.97
50	14				Thierno Barry	EVE	EVE v. LEE	F	5.7	0.7	4.97
51		27			Enzo Fernandez	CHE	CHE at CRY	M	6.5	11.9	4.96
52		28			Morgan Rogers	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	7.7	31.9	4.96
53		29			Kaoru Mitoma	BHA	BHA at FUL	M	6.1	2.0	4.95
54		30			Elliot Anderson	NFO	NFO at BRE	M	5.3	4.4	4.94
55		31			Emiliano Buendia	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	5.3	0.3	4.94
56		32			Youri Tielemans	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	5.9	1.1	4.92
57		33			Moises Caicedo	CHE	CHE at CRY	M	5.7	7.8	4.90
58		34			Conor Gallagher	TOT	TOT at BRN	M	5.5	0.1	4.88
59		35			Mikkel Damsgaard	BRE	BRE v. NFO	M	5.7	0.5	4.88
60		36			Marcus Edwards	BRN	BRN v. TOT	M	4.7	0.1	4.87
61			20		Jeremie Frimpong	LIV	LIV at BOU	D	5.8	6.8	4.86
62		37			Mateus Fernandes	WHU	WHU v. SUN	M	5.5	0.1	4.86
63		38			Tomas Soucek	WHU	WHU v. SUN	M	5.7	0.2	4.84
64			17		Daniel Ballard	SUN	SUN at WHU	D	4.6	3.0	4.83
65			11		Nathan Patterson	EVE	EVE v. LEE	D	4.4	0.0	4.82
66	15				Evanilson	BOU	BOU v. LIV	F	7.0	1.6	4.82
67		39			Yehor Yarmolyuk	BRE	BRE v. NFO	M	5.0	0.1	4.82
68		40			Georginio Rutter	BHA	BHA at FUL	M	5.6	0.5	4.82
69		41			Alex Scott	BOU	BOU v. LIV	M	5.0	0.2	4.80
70	16				Jarrod Bowen	WHU	WHU v. SUN	F	7.6	8.1	4.80
71		42			Wilson Odobert	TOT	TOT at BRN	M	5.3	0.0	4.79
72			13		Trai Hume	SUN	SUN at WHU	D	4.5	0.4	4.77
73			12		Jurrien Timber	ARS	ARS v. MUN	D	6.3	28.1	4.77
74			14		Jake O'Brien	EVE	EVE v. LEE	D	4.9	0.7	4.76
75		43			Merlin Rohl	EVE	EVE v. LEE	M	5.0	0.0	4.76
76	17				Viktor Gyokeres	ARS	ARS v. MUN	F	8.7	9.3	4.75
77			15		Reece James	CHE	CHE at CRY	D	5.7	10.5	4.73
78		44			Ethan Ampadu	LEE	LEE at EVE	M	4.9	0.1	4.72
79		45			Xavi Simons	TOT	TOT at BRN	M	6.5	1.1	4.72
80			16		Micky van de Ven	TOT	TOT at BRN	D	4.6	28.2	4.72
81		46			Pedro Neto	CHE	CHE at CRY	M	7.1	6.3	4.68
82		47			Bryan Mbeumo	MUN	MUN at ARS	M	8.1	10.2	4.67
83		48			Vitaly Janelt	BRE	BRE v. NFO	M	4.9	0.3	4.67
84	18				Armando Broja	BRN	BRN v. TOT	F	5.2	0.2	4.64
85		49			Lewis Cook	BOU	BOU v. LIV	M	4.9	0.0	4.64
86		50			Jaidon Anthony	BRN	BRN v. TOT	M	5.1	1.9	4.64
87		51			Casemiro	MUN	MUN at ARS	M	5.5	1.3	4.63
88		52			Noah Okafor	LEE	LEE at EVE	M	5.5	0.1	4.63
89		53			Sandro Tonali	NEW	NEW v. AVL	M	5.3	1.0	4.63
90			18		Trevoh Chalobah	CHE	CHE at CRY	D	5.5	18.7	4.62
91			21		Joachim Andersen	FUL	FUL v. BHA	D	4.6	5.5	4.61
92			22		Nordi Mukiele	SUN	SUN at WHU	D	4.4	11.4	4.60
93		54			Florentino Luis	BRN	BRN v. TOT	M	5.0	0.0	4.60
94		55			Amine Adli	BOU	BOU v. LIV	M	5.4	0.0	4.59
95		56			Martin Zubimendi	ARS	ARS v. MUN	M	5.2	2.2	4.59
96			23		Joe Rodon	LEE	LEE at EVE	D	3.9	3.4	4.56
97			19		Ben White	ARS	ARS v. MUN	D	5.1	0.6	4.56
98		57			Yankuba Minteh	BHA	BHA at FUL	M	5.8	2.9	4.55
99	19				Igor Jesus	NFO	NFO at BRE	F	5.8	1.0	4.55
100		58			Ismaila Sarr	CRY	CRY v. CHE	M	6.3	2.0	4.53
101		59			Ryan Gravenberch	LIV	LIV at BOU	M	5.7	6.2	4.53
102		60			Archie Gray	TOT	TOT at BRN	M	4.8	0.1	4.53
103		61			Alejandro Garnacho	CHE	CHE at CRY	M	6.4	0.6	4.52
104			24		Abdukodir Khusanov	MCI	MCI v. WOL	D	5.4	0.3	4.51
105			25		Maxime Esteve	BRN	BRN v. TOT	D	3.9	8.4	4.51
106			26		Kieran Trippier	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	4.9	1.3	4.48
107		62			Martin Odegaard	ARS	ARS v. MUN	M	7.8	2.4	4.47
108			27		Konstantinos Mavropanos	WHU	WHU v. SUN	D	4.4	0.1	4.46
109			28		Gabriel Gudmundsson	LEE	LEE at EVE	D	3.8	4.2	4.46
110			29		Kristoffer Ajer	BRE	BRE v. NFO	D	4.4	0.2	4.46
111			30		Aaron Wan-Bissaka	WHU	WHU v. SUN	D	4.1	3.9	4.45
112		63			Morgan Gibbs-White	NFO	NFO at BRE	M	7.3	2.9	4.44
113		64			Carlos Baleba	BHA	BHA at FUL	M	4.5	1.3	4.44
114			31		Antonee Robinson	FUL	FUL v. BHA	D	4.9	0.8	4.43
115			32		Omar Alderete	SUN	SUN at WHU	D	4.1	6.5	4.42
116			33		Virgil van Dijk	LIV	LIV at BOU	D	5.9	22.5	4.42
117			34		Vitaliy Mykolenko	EVE	EVE v. LEE	D	4.9	0.8	4.40
118			35		Maxence Lacroix	CRY	CRY v. CHE	D	5.1	6.0	4.39
119		65			Lesley Ugochukwu	BRN	BRN v. TOT	M	5.0	0.1	4.39
120		66			Pascal Gross	BHA	BHA at FUL	M	5.5	0.0	4.38
121			36		Marcos Senesi	BOU	BOU v. LIV	D	4.8	14.0	4.37
122			37		Tosin Adarabioyo	CHE	CHE at CRY	D	4.0	0.3	4.37
123		67			Callum Hudson-Odoi	NFO	NFO at BRE	M	5.7	0.8	4.37
124		68			Enzo Le Fee	SUN	SUN at WHU	M	4.9	1.1	4.35
125		69			Adam Wharton	CRY	CRY v. CHE	M	5.0	0.8	4.35
126		70			Yeremy Pino	CRY	CRY v. CHE	M	5.8	0.2	4.33
127				1	Gianluigi Donnarumma	MCI	MCI v. WOL	G	5.7	9.9	4.33
128		71			Alex Iwobi	FUL	FUL v. BHA	M	6.3	0.7	4.33
129			39		Pascal Struijk	LEE	LEE at EVE	D	4.3	0.4	4.33
130			38		William Saliba	ARS	ARS v. MUN	D	6.0	12.1	4.32
131			40		Bashir Humphreys	BRN	BRN v. TOT	D	3.9	0.1	4.29
132			41		Lewis Hall	NEW	NEW v. AVL	D	5.3	3.2	4.29
133			42		Michael Kayode	BRE	BRE v. NFO	D	4.5	0.7	4.28
134		72			Diego Gomez	BHA	BHA at FUL	M	4.9	0.2	4.27
135				2	Jordan Pickford	EVE	EVE v. LEE	G	5.6	13.1	4.26
136		73			Kevin	FUL	FUL v. BHA	M	5.8	0.1	4.25
137				3	Caoimhin Kelleher	BRE	BRE v. NFO	G	4.6	10.0	4.24
138			43		Ibrahima Konate	LIV	LIV at BOU	D	5.4	3.5	4.23
139		74			Mathias Jensen	BRE	BRE v. NFO	M	4.9	0.1	4.23
140			44		Destiny Udogie	TOT	TOT at BRN	D	4.3	0.3	4.22
141			45		Murillo	NFO	NFO at BRE	D	5.2	1.9	4.20
142			46		Timothy Castagne	FUL	FUL v. BHA	D	4.3	0.1	4.17
143		75			Habib Diarra	SUN	SUN at WHU	M	5.3	0.0	4.16
144		76			Andre	WOL	WOL at MCI	M	5.3	0.1	4.15
145				4	Karl Darlow	LEE	LEE at EVE	G	3.9	2.0	4.15
146		77			Justin Devenny	CRY	CRY v. CHE	M	4.3	1.6	4.14
147			47		Marc Cucurella	CHE	CHE at CRY	D	6.0	16.0	4.14
148			48		James Hill	BOU	BOU v. LIV	D	3.9	0.6	4.12
149		78			David Brooks	BOU	BOU v. LIV	M	5.0	0.2	4.12
150	20				Mateus Mane	WOL	WOL at MCI	F	4.5	1.0	4.11
151		79			Jefferson Lerma	CRY	CRY v. CHE	M	4.9	0.1	4.11
152		80			Amad Diallo	MUN	MUN at ARS	M	6.2	1.1	4.09
153		81			Will Hughes	CRY	CRY v. CHE	M	4.7	0.1	4.06
154		82			Dwight McNeil	EVE	EVE v. LEE	M	5.5	0.2	4.03
155		83			Sander Berge	FUL	FUL v. BHA	M	4.9	0.1	4.00
156			49		Milos Kerkez	LIV	LIV at BOU	D	5.6	3.0	3.98
157			50		Jean-Clair Todibo	WHU	WHU v. SUN	D	4.3	0.1	3.98
158		84			Nicolas Dominguez	NFO	NFO at BRE	M	5.0	0.0	3.98
159			51		James Justin	LEE	LEE at EVE	D	3.9	0.3	3.96
160			52		Axel Tuanzebe	BRN	BRN v. TOT	D	3.9	1.0	3.91
161			53		Jayden Bogle	LEE	LEE at EVE	D	4.4	0.2	3.91
162		85			Bernardo Silva	MCI	MCI v. WOL	M	6.2	0.5	3.88
163				5	David Raya	ARS	ARS v. MUN	G	5.9	33.5	3.87
164		86			Ilia Gruev	LEE	LEE at EVE	M	4.7	0.1	3.85
165			54		Nikola Milenkovic	NFO	NFO at BRE	D	5.1	3.1	3.82
166		87			Joao Gomes	WOL	WOL at MCI	M	5.3	0.1	3.82
167	21				Tolu Arokodare	WOL	WOL at MCI	F	5.4	0.1	3.81
168			55		Ian Maatsen	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.2	0.5	3.81
169		88			Evann Guessand	AVL	AVL at NEW	M	6.2	0.0	3.80
170			56		Chris Richards	CRY	CRY v. CHE	D	4.4	1.9	3.80
171			57		Harry Maguire	MUN	MUN at ARS	D	4.3	0.5	3.80
172		89			Harrison Armstrong	EVE	EVE v. LEE	M	4.5	0.1	3.79
173			58		Neco Williams	NFO	NFO at BRE	D	4.7	3.2	3.78
174				6	Martin Dubravka	BRN	BRN v. TOT	G	4.0	32.9	3.78
175			59		Oliver Scarles	WHU	WHU v. SUN	D	4.3	0.0	3.78
176				7	Alphonse Areola	WHU	WHU v. SUN	G	4.3	2.2	3.75
177				8	Nick Pope	NEW	NEW v. AVL	G	5.1	5.1	3.75
178		90			Hwang Hee-Chan	WOL	WOL at MCI	M	5.6	0.1	3.74
179				9	Guglielmo Vicario	TOT	TOT at BRN	G	4.8	6.8	3.73
180			60		Calvin Bassey	FUL	FUL v. BHA	D	4.4	0.3	3.72
181		91			Noah Sadiki	SUN	SUN at WHU	M	4.9	0.0	3.68
182			61		Jan Paul van Hecke	BHA	BHA at FUL	D	4.5	4.3	3.63
183			62		Joel Veltman	BHA	BHA at FUL	D	4.3	0.1	3.62
184	22				Pablo Felipe	WHU	WHU v. SUN	F	5.5	0.0	3.55
185		92			Kobbie Mainoo	MUN	MUN at ARS	M	4.6	0.4	3.54
186				10	Robert Sanchez	CHE	CHE at CRY	G	4.9	13.5	3.53
187			63		Lucas Pires	BRN	BRN v. TOT	D	3.8	0.3	3.52
188				11	Bernd Leno	FUL	FUL v. BHA	G	4.9	1.7	3.47
189			69		Patrick Dorgu	MUN	MUN at ARS	D	4.3	7.8	3.46
190				12	Alisson	LIV	LIV at BOU	G	5.4	6.2	3.46
191		93			Crysencio Summerville	WHU	WHU v. SUN	M	5.5	0.1	3.43
192			64		Tyrick Mitchell	CRY	CRY v. CHE	D	5.0	2.1	3.42
193			65		Rico Henry	BRE	BRE v. NFO	D	4.3	0.2	3.41
194			66		Ferdi Kadioglu	BHA	BHA at FUL	D	4.4	0.3	3.39
195			67		Matty Cash	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.8	11.2	3.34
196				13	Robin Roefs	SUN	SUN at WHU	G	5.0	13.1	3.28
197			68		Adrien Truffert	BOU	BOU v. LIV	D	4.5	1.7	3.21
198				14	Dean Henderson	CRY	CRY v. CHE	G	5.1	7.8	3.19
199				15	Matz Sels	NFO	NFO at BRE	G	4.6	5.5	3.15
200			70		Reinildo	SUN	SUN at WHU	D	3.8	2.7	3.12
201			71		Lewis Dunk	BHA	BHA at FUL	D	4.5	0.9	3.12
202			72		Lisandro Martinez	MUN	MUN at ARS	D	4.8	0.6	3.10
203				16	Emiliano Martinez	AVL	AVL at NEW	G	5.0	3.2	3.07
204			73		Kyle Walker	BRN	BRN v. TOT	D	4.4	1.1	3.03
205			74		Ola Aina	NFO	NFO at BRE	D	4.7	1.9	2.99
206				17	Bart Verbruggen	BHA	BHA at FUL	G	4.5	5.9	2.90
207				18	Djordje Petrovic	BOU	BOU v. LIV	G	4.5	4.4	2.79
208			75		Ezri Konsa	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.4	7.4	2.76
209				19	Senne Lammens	MUN	MUN at ARS	G	5.0	1.8	2.69
210			76		Pau Torres	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.3	0.3	2.66
211			77		Santi Bueno	WOL	WOL at MCI	D	4.4	0.1	2.53
212			78		Diogo Dalot	MUN	MUN at ARS	D	4.5	3.7	2.50
213			79		Lamare Bogarde	AVL	AVL at NEW	D	4.0	0.5	2.41
214			80		Yerson Mosquera	WOL	WOL at MCI	D	4.3	0.1	2.25
215				20	Jose Sa	WOL	WOL at MCI	G	4.2	1.0	2.24
216			81		Ladislav Krejci	WOL	WOL at MCI	D	4.5	0.1	2.10
217			82		Luke Shaw	MUN	MUN at ARS	D	4.5	0.6	2.05
218			83		Alex Jimenez	BOU	BOU v. LIV	D	4.5	0.1	1.97
219			84		Hugo Bueno	WOL	WOL at MCI	D	4.3	0.1	1.90
220			85		Jackson Tchatchoua	WOL	WOL at MCI	D	4.4	0.0	1.71